Sweet Home AlabamaBy: Rebecca Kollar, Jordan Clark,

and Caleb Brinker

Figurative Language

Song includes Anaphora Alliteration Apostrophe????

Confusing words in the song

Confusing words or phrases, One verse of the song includes the line "Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers/And they've been known to pick a song or two." This refers to the town of muscle shoals, Alabama, a popular location for recording popular music due to the "sound" crafted by local recording studios and back-up musicians. "The Swampers" referred to in the lyrics are the muscle shoals rhythm section. These musicians, who crafted the "Muscle Shoals Sound", were inducted into the Alabama music hall of fame in 1995

Background of the song

Without Young's songs that were so critical of the South's segregationist and racist attitudes for inspiration, it is doubtful that the band would have produced a song with such a long lasting duration that continues to sell well 30 years after its release.

Song lyrics

Big wheels keep on turning Carry me home to see my kin

Singing songs about the Southland I miss Alabamy once again

And I think its a sin, yes

Well I heard mister Young sing about her Well, I heard ole Neil put her down

Well, I hope Neil Young will remember A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue

Sweet Home Alabama Lord, I'm coming home to you

In Birmingham they love the governor Now we all did what we could do

Now Watergate does not bother me Does your conscience bother you?

Tell the truth

Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue

Sweet Home Alabama Lord, I'm coming home to you

Here I come Alabama

Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue Sweet Home Alabama Lord, I'm coming home to you Here I come Alabama

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers And they've been known to pick a song or two Lord they get me off so much They pick me up when I'm feeling blue Now how about you? Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue Sweet Home Alabama Lord, I'm coming home to you

Criticism of the song summary

Sweet home alabama was in response to neil youngs song southern man in alabama neil youngs songs were about segregation was the way to go and it was saying that all southerners were racist

We like this song because of the beat and the way this song to say racism is not the way all southerners are

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